I'm currently using a Lucent Technologies WaveLAN Silver pcmcia card in
my Dell Inspiron. The linux drivers for it seem finicky (then again, the
whole pcmcia package for linux is flakey). I also use this card a lot in
Win2k, and i get occasional BSODs when inserting the card. We use them
with the Airports here. The Airport has a very cruddy range (don't have
an antenna on either the Airport or the wavelan nic). I know the WaveLAN
base stations have a much greater range (and are also about twice as
expensive).
I have pondered doing some range tests with an Airport and Spencer Butte
(my residence is in direct LOS) but haven't had the time, nor the
inkling yet. Regardless, wireless is way cool, if only to be able to sit
at your desk with your laptop in your lap while ssh'd into a server.
Jacob
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> So, I got it in my head that I wanted to take my windows laptop,
> make it dual-boot with mandrake, and then be able to do wireless
> ethernet on it. Has anyone mucked about with this stuff? Seems
> like it should work with the Linux WaveLan drivers since it is
> 802.11 compliant. My employers have already successfully put
> airport cards into windows laptops, served IPs from airport base
> stations, and it works great.
>
> The only problem is I don't have a macintosh to actually be able
> to configure the airport base station. Yuck. Anyone know a
> workaround?
>
> All part of my quest to be able to hack linux and do web programming
> on my laptop, out on the back deck on my cot, with no cords, drinking
> a glass of ice tea.
>
> (You can even solar-power your laptop with a $400 panel that was
> linked to from /. a while back - they also had an article about
> directional antennas for the airport - download software from the
> top of spencer butte!)
>
> Curt
